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Patented Apr. 25', 1911.

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w1@ NWN UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAMJ. RIGNEY, 0F NEW YORK, N.Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM 0F MCLOUGHLIN BBOTHERS, 0F BROOKLYN, NEV YQRK.

GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 1911.

To allwhom fit/may concern.'

Beit known that I, lViLLiAM J. B IGNE'Y, a citizen of the United States,residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New YorkandState ofNew York, have made certain -new and useful Improvements 1n Games notHeretofore Known or Used;

,and I hereby declare the following specificawhich is removed by theforce of the blow from the ball and another face substitutedautomatically so that the skill of the party throwing the ball is testedand recorded. These and other objects and details of the invention aremore fully described in the following specification, set forth in theclaims and illustrated in the drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a. perspective view of the device with one side partlybroken away to show the interior mechanism. Fig. 2 is a verticaltransverse sectional view. Fig. 3 is a view from the rear with the backwall removed. Fig. it is a transverse vertical sectional view of amodified form. Fig. 5 is a rear view of the saine with the back of thebox removed.

The device consists preferably of a box 10, or may be a wall with a boxor casing at the rear of same and back of opening 11, the front wall orside of the box having painted thereon the figure of a man 12, or anyother desired object. The lower part of the box is provided with acompartment 13, for the reception of balls or other objects which areplaced therein and made accessible by the opening 14. The opening 11 isadapted to contain a face 15 and is consequently made with outlinescorresponding to the face 15 which represents a negro or darkcomplexioned individual, or it may be a representation of the typicalGerman face 16 having the identical contour to fit within the opening11. The face 15 is mounted on arms 17 pivoted in brackets 18 above theopening 11 while the face 16 is also mounted on similar arms 19 andpivoted in brackets 2O below `is permitted to fill the opening 11.

the opening. The latter face and arms are provided with equalizingsprings 21 to support the weight of the face 16 and tend to throw itupward when a ball strikes the face 15 and forces it from the opening 11and into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The arms 17 and19 are connected with each other by means of a link 22, and when the.face 15, is forced backward and upward into the position shown in dottedlines, the impact of the blow not only carries the face 15 backward andupward but permits the face 16 to take its place in consequence of thepressure of the springs 21,

thus indicating that the ball has struck the face 15 and displaced it sothat the face 16 The operation .is reversed on the next hit by the ball.If the ball in consequence of this action should drop into the box 10 itmay be removed when desired, but usually the ball will bound back afterhitting the face. The springs 21 are coiled about the pivotal rod 23 onwhich the face 16 is carried and one end of these Springs bears againstthe front of the box while the other bears against the back of the face.

In the modified forms shown in Figs. 1 and 5 the faces 24 and 25 arecarried respectively by the arms 26 and 27. Brackets 28 are attached tothe arms 27, the latter being pivoted on shafts 29 and these brackets 28support the rod 30 on whose outer ends links 31 are journaled andconnected with the arms 26 so that when the face 24 is struck and forcedbackward, it permits the face 25 to descend and till the opening 11where the latter face will remain unti it is struck by a ball and thrownupward, its momentum causing the links 31 to drag the face 24 upward atan impetus that would throw it forward into the opening 11 where it willbe held by thel weight of the other face through the agency of the links31. This operation may be continued and the various faces alternated asthe blows are struck by the ball.

lt is obvious that other means be resorted to, or slight changes made inthe form of mechanism used, to cause these two faces to be displaced andin the action of being thrown backward to substitute another face,without departing from the essential features of my invention as abovedescribed and shown in the drawings. l

I/Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a game or toy, the combination with a wall having an aperture, oftwo representations of faces each of which is adapted to fit theaperture separately and means connecting said faces which causes them toappear automatically one at a time in the aperture when either face isdisplaced by pressure thereon from without, substantially as shown anddescribed.

f2. In a game or toy, the combination with a wall having an aperture, offaces adapted to appear separately in the aperture and means for causingthe faces to fill the aperture alternately when either is forced inwardby pressure thereon, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a game or toy, the combination with a wall having an aperture fora face or object, of faces pivoted behind the wall and adapted to fitthe aperture separately and automatic means for alternating the faces asthe one in the aperture is struck a blow.

4. In a game or toy, the combination with a wall having an aperture toreceive a face or object, of a face carried by arms and hinged back ofthe opening, a second face hinged back of the opening, and linksconnecting the faces so that one is displayed at a time.

5. In a game or toy, the combination with a wall having an aperture theshape of a head, of a face adapted to lit the opening, pivoted armscarrying the face, a second pivoted face adapted to fit the opening,arms carrying the second face, links connecting the arms of the twofaces to hold one or the other in or out ofV theV opening, and prings toequalize the weight of one of the aces.

WILLIAM J. RIGNEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

